5/20/2019

Garden on bus tops

'When I read this article about
plants on top of buses, my immediate reaction was – what a bad idea. It
will never work. It will take too much maintenence.

My common sense tells me that a better idea is to put solar panel on
top of the buses. To keep the bus cool, it should be possible to have a
cushion of air below the solar panel and the top of the buses. This
works like a cladding to an office building. '

This was posted by Tan Kin Lian in the TRE.

A bad idea? Come on, this is excellent idea. Only exceptionally clever Singaporean thinkers can come up with such brilliant and worthy idea. Next, the follow up, would be to rear goats or chickens on top of bus tops, or have a little garden on every bus. Then instead of Garden City, they could rename it Rolling Garden City, and the whole world would fly here to see the Jewel and Rolling Gardens on bus tops.

And this is not the end, they will likely follow up to submit to UN World Heritage Board to accept this as our unique culture or idea, something better than those head kosong countries everyday trying to get themselves into the Guinness Book of Records.

The ultimate idea along this kind of thinking is to have a garden on the head of every Singaporean. Imagine what the creative mind of Singaporeans would take this idea to, flower heads, coconut heads,....The foreigners might not buy the idea, but daft Singaporeans would. Everything new is novel and worthy of doing, except serious stuff.

I dunno whether we have progressed or digressed with this kind of flirtatious dreams to be great, to achieve greatness, or stupid attention because there is nothing else better to do.

Probably the bus company run out of ads idea la. Tis juz to attract attention. Though it doesn't give any wow expression to the tourist, it does make somebody stand up to say what a bad idea, it's ez to criticize but ask someone to come out another good idea he or she wouldn't do or no good idea, they only cares bout their own popularity as its nimby mindset on them, that's the mentality of tiny red rock here.

Tray return also not good idea. You still need cleaners to mop the table before the next person can use it. Why not ask patrons to clean up the table as well after eating, because crows and mynahs still land on the tables to peck at foods and spreading diseases.

If all that becomes mandatory, the only people benefiting will be the food vendors, who are now paying for people to collect used crockery for washing as well as cleaning the tables. They saved some money on manpower but customers still pay the same price for the food.

I think Red Dot is beginning to follow the Mats up North, throwing good money to buy expensive paints to splash on walls to tell the world we have arrived.

Just look at all the unnecessary digging going around the island. The next election message maybe is to tell daft Sinkies that improving the surroundings will keep pushing up the value of your HDB flats. It might still work on the 70%. Sorry, I don't mean to plagiarise the oft repeated 70% quotation.

The next time when you are waiting at a bus-stop, from a distance, you saw the bus service you are taking moves nearer and nearer...

Alas, as it gets close enough, you were astounded initially and was hesitant whether it is really the bus service you used to take often as now it has a (beautiful) rooftop garden ...

Will it not make your (day and the) next bus trip such a serendipitous experience and something you can look forward to not unlike the "Heng, Ongg, Huat" euphoria you experience when you kena "big" (strike) at the roulette table (at Genting) each time?

Everytime when you (have the good fortune to) take a rooftop garden (decorated) bus it is maciam tiok baey pio, instantaneously triggering extreme exhilaration, excitement and exuberance.

Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss, another member of the SPP, described the Ministerial Committee as a “tragic joke”. “It is like the Boss of ...

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